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How close was your starting budget to the final bu

Hi Y'all,
Just thought this would be fun. My budgets are usually off by at least 30%-40%. The system I am planning now has grown and I am just in the planning stage. Originally looking at most $7k and I am afraid to start putting pencil to paper to get the current total! Yikes!

Joe in Mobile
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rsfphil
110 posts
 
Budget was $10,000. Spent $12,500.
wrtickle
103 posts
 
like the mbta's job budgeting the the big dig
markphd
667 posts
 
Adding everything up makes me feel a bit ill. I'd rather not think about it. I now think of budgets in relation to individual components rather than the total system.
foster_9
1,610 posts
 
Markphd, I hear ya! It makes me ill too, to focus on my total expenditures, so I quit doing that a while ago. And people who know me would say I'm sick for spending that kind of money too.
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mitch4t
1,486 posts
 
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I thought I'd be able to to do it for about $2k. I was wrong but I was satisfied with the end result.
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